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by voyou 5390 days ago
Almost as easy as just, you know, creating a website. Obviously, the simplified example is simplified, but can you sketch a case where this would actually be useful? Or, even better, point to a site where it is actually in use?

EDIT: Just to clarify, what I'm wondering is, where would a single-page site that consists of pages of content (rather than an app) be useful?

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The single page aspect is mostly just for 'slickness' - content is displayed instantly, animations are used and the page only needs to be loaded once. It is becoming more popular among the web; many portfolio sites that I come across are on a single page. The portfolio, business card, resume, etc... type site is well suited for a single page since they are simple, slickness is fairly important and search engine rankings aren't as important.

A side benefit of Pagify is that it DRYs up what would otherwise be duplicated elements in content sites with static HTML pages, i.e. header, navigation and footer - and without any serverside processing.

That being said, a single page and this plugin in particular, certainly aren't the best option for all sites. The reason I made this was to make the development cost virtually the same for developing single page sites.

Had the same thought. Nice, but Y?

Why not simply make one HTML page and a couple of anchors for navigation. That would yield a simple site without the need to code anything.

-jsl